Se Jin Koo

Professor Koo specializes in Comparative Politics and Methods with an emphasis on political parties and party systems, executive politics, quantitative methods, content analysis, politics in East Asia. She taught at Texas A&M University and the University of California San Diego prior to joining Nazarbayev University.

Professor Koo’s current research focuses on ideological linkage between parties and voters and the role and motivation of party activists in Asia. She conducted fieldwork in South Korea and Mongolia (in-depth interviews and surveys) and is expanding her survey dataset to party activists in Taiwan. Her recent paper on intra-party democracy and party activism is forthcoming in Party Politics.